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3285 storiesNavigating the Crowd: Non-linear MPC with Social Forces Dynamics for Human-Aware Robot Navigation
arXiv:2607.10374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe and socially compliant navigation remains a fundamental challenge for autonomous robots operating in human-…
SensorPerch: Sense Wherever and Whenever it Matters
arXiv:2607.10682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing robotic perception is constrained by sensors that are either robot-mounted or permanently fixed in the …
EDAR: Learning Environment-Dependent Action Representations for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.11427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning effective action representations is critical for robotic manipulation, where raw control trajectories a…
Task Planning for Mobile Manipulation in Retail Stores using Foundation Models with Iterative Re-planning
arXiv:2607.09962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automation in industries such as retail, warehousing and logistics presents opportunities for greater throughput…
SWIFT: A Small-World Interaction Framework for Flow-Aware Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.09741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate trajectory prediction in autonomous driving hinges on modeling dynamic and context-dependent interactio…
A Glimpse into Long-term Physical Coexistence with Intelligent Robots
arXiv:2607.11377v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term physical coexistence with intelligent robots requires more than capable robot policies. A persistent r…
SUREFlow: State-space Uncertainty-aware REsidual Flow Matching for Robust Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2607.10504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative vision-language-action policies have advanced robot manipulation, but they often exhibit instability …
Stop to Decide: Latency-Aware Proprioceptive Navigation Primitives for Mapping-Free Quadruped Inspection
arXiv:2607.11204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compute-constrained quadrupeds often run their navigation loop far below the controller's design rate: sharing t…
SKooP: Symmetric Koopman Predictions for Faster and More Generalizable Legged Robot Locomotion with Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.11624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms classically suffer from poor sample efficiency. In robotics, a recent lin…
Learning High-Level Decision Making with an Interaction-Aware Attention-Based Network in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.09725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable learning-based high-level decision making for lane changes and speed control in automated driving must …
WALA Learning Executable Latent Actions from Action-Labeled Demonstrations and Action-Free Videos
arXiv:2607.11397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalizable robot policies typically rely on action-labeled robot demonstrations, which are expensive to colle…
PIER-Flow: Physics-Informed Efficient Rectified Flow for Real-Time Mobile Robot Navigation
arXiv:2607.10288v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous navigation in dense and highly dynamic environments requires both physically feasible control and low…
Coordinated Incremental Trajectory Tracking of a Tailsitter Drone
arXiv:2607.11651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper derives an analytical differential flatness transform for a tailsitter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) …
Xiaomi-Robotics-U0: Unified Embodied Synthesis with World Foundation Model
arXiv:2607.11643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent foundation image and video generation models offer strong generalization and controllability, but their d…
Robo-ValueRL: Reliable Value Estimation for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.09866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline-to-online reinforcement learning is promising for generalizable robotic manipulation, yet its full-stack…
Millimeter Wave Radar: From Synthetic Aperture to Probabilistic Mapping
arXiv:2607.10161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust probabilistic mapping is essential for autonomous robotic systems operating in challenging environments. …
Learning Whole-Body Humanoid Locomotion via Motion Generation and Motion Tracking
arXiv:2604.17335v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Whole-body humanoid locomotion is challenging due to high-dimensional control, morphological instability, an…
Coverage Path Planning: Classical Foundations, Recent Advances, and Future Directions
arXiv:2607.10649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coverage path planning (CPP) is a fundamental problem in robot motion planning, whose aim is to produce robot tr…
CSI-Assisted Edge SLAM Testbed Platform for 5G Connected Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2607.10394v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The evolution from 5G towards 6G reinforces interest in connected robotics, where mobile robots offload comput…
Maximizing Human Efficiency in Large-Scale Robot Post-Training via VLAC-Cut Guided Pipeline
arXiv:2607.09776v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When adapting Vision Language Action (VLA) models to downstream tasks, multiple rounds of post training are requ…
Hierarchical and Holistic Open-Vocabulary Functional 3D Scene Graphs for Indoor Spaces
arXiv:2605.15753v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Functional 3D scene graphs offer a versatile and flexible representation for 3D scene understanding and robo…
Towards Online Robot Interaction Adaptation to Human Upper-limb Mobility Impairments in Return-to-Work Scenarios
arXiv:2510.05425v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Work environments are often inadequate and lack inclusivity for individuals with upper-body disabilities. Th…
NeuralActuator: Neural Actuation Modeling for Robot Dynamics and External Force Perception
arXiv:2607.11734v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Differentiable simulators have advanced policy learning and model-based control, yet actuator dynamics remain an…
IntentVLA: Short-Horizon Intent Modeling for Aliased Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2605.14712v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot imitation data are often multimodal: similar visual-language observations may be followed by different…
MotuBrain: An Advanced World Action Model for Robot Control
arXiv:2604.27792v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models generalize semantically well but often lack fine-grained modeling of wor…
Requirement-Driven Design of Whole-Body Social Tactile Sensing via Virtual Human-Robot Interaction
arXiv:2607.11690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensing for social-physical human-robot interaction (spHRI) is designed in a hardware-driven manner, whe…
IBPA: Real-time Free-form Manifold Mesh Reconstruction via Incremental Ball Pivoting with Integrated Hole Detection
arXiv:2607.11627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Both Remotely Operated underwater Vehicles (ROVs) and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are frequently dep…
Soft Eversion Robots for Colonoscopy: Challenges, Open Problems, and Emerging Solutions
arXiv:2607.10294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional colonoscopy remains limited by patient discomfort and procedural risks, motivating research into co…
Large Language Model Enhanced Differentiable Trajectory Planning for IoT-Enabled Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.10438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving planning is a key component of IoT-enabled intelligent transportation systems, requiring vehi…
On the Efficiency of LoRA Fine-Tuning for Vision-Language-Action Models in Industrial Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.10172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying billion-parameter Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models on industrial hardware requires fine-tuning to b…